Tuesday, January 05, 2010

to focus each day on some small part of God's grace to me (with the end goal in mind of extending that same grace to people around me)

to worry less about what people think (about me, my house, my marriage, my spiritual life) and more about what God thinks

to keep working on communicating with my husband (rather than clamming up and employing the silent treatment)

to continue purging our house of stuff we don't need or absolutely love

to steadily work on finishing one room of our house at a time, within the hubby's budget and to the best condition that resources allow

Wow- looks like it's going to be a busy year. Good thing most of these are a continuation of efforts already begun. I have a horrible track record of setting my goals much too high, expecting way too much from myself and giving up halfway through when I realize that success is impossible. So I thought I'd keep things reasonable this year- unfortunately, I immediately counted the number of rooms on the main level of our house and figured out that I have to average one room per month to finish them all. Old habits die hard.

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Isaiah 61:3 ...to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.Psalms 18: 16 & 19 But me he caught- reached all the way from sky to sea; he pulled me out of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning...He stood me up on a wide-open field; I stood there saved- surprised to be loved!